black dress pants for small/slender 11 year old
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Anonymous
| I need to find black dress pants for my 11 year old 6th grade girl for her school band concert. She is short for her age and very slender -- generally in the 10/12 size range but it has to be a slim fit. I took her to the mall and we struck out at Sears, Macy's, and Nordstroms. Does anyone have any other suggestions for places to look? |
Anonymous
| Old Navy or Gap slim jeggings, skinny jeans, or uniform skinny pants |
Anonymous
| are these dressy enough? I find HA to be pretty good on my relatively slim daughter. http://www.hannaandersson.com/pdp.aspx?from=SC&pcid=1342&styleid=41976&simg=41976_015 |
Anonymous
| I drove myself nuts in the mall just yesterday over the same thing. Why is something so basic so hard to find? Ended up with black jeans from Macy's and they work just fine. True, the school did not specify that it had to be dress pants; black was the only requirement. |
Anonymous
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Gap, Lands End and Old Navy all sell black chinos in slim sizes online - look in the uniform stores. Not the most fashionable things you ever saw, but they'd work for a band concert.
http://www.landsend.com/products/school-uniform-plain-front-blend-chino-pant/id_267537?sku_0=::CLN |
Anonymous
| Justice does slim sizes and the leggings are very dark black and look dressy. It's what my DD wears for band concerts. |
Anonymous
| Junior sections at Kohls and JCP |
Anonymous
We do gap for my size 12, below 5th percentile BMI. The make some pants in "super skinny" (I think that's what it's called). But dress pants are tough. For band, we bought a long (a couple inches above the ankle) pleated black skirt from Lands End with an adjustable waist. It fit well and lasted 2 years. Is a long black skirt an option for you? |
Anonymous
| Look for black yoga pants at Kohls. If they are new and not washed a lot, they are deep black and they look as good as true-dress-pants. Of course you don't want your child to wear them super tight... but if she's slender, like mine, they won't be tight on her. |
Anonymous
| For my same body type and aged child, we get black band pants at lands end online in the uniform section - I buy down a size and get the slim cut, and you can get them hemmed to any length so they are not floods (love LE for their slim cut line and the hemming option!). |
Anonymous
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Thanks so much for the suggestions; I have my new weekend shopping list set! I had already looked at LE but didn't think to check the uniform section.
Her band teacher is super picky -- no skirts, no jeans, no jeggings, apparently nothing simple and easy to find that's made for the 11-year-old crowd. Plus my dd is the by-the-book kid who absolutely has to follow every rule strictly -- so even if I tried to persuade her that non-dress pants would work, she'd refuse to wear them. |
Anonymous
| Junior section at Kohl's has size 0 and 1 which should be about the size you're seeking |
Anonymous
| I bought these in burgundy from Lands End. http://www.landsend.com/products/girls-pull-on-knit-jeggings/id_301388?sku_0=::BLA The size 10 fit my skinny 10 year old, and she is usually way too skinny for size 10-12 clothes. The length is a little short on her (she is all legs, short torso) so they might fight your DD. |
Anonymous
This is what I was going to suggest. Slightly cheaper option is black uniform slacks from Old Navy in slim, from their website. Lands End is better quality and slightly dressier, but a little more expensive. Just depends on your preference. Old Navy runs a little slimmer though, so sizing down might not be needed. |
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